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Create Swap Partition and Activate On Amazon Linux 2
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| #first create the file this will make a 4gb file. do 20 count for 2gb etc.. | |
| sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=128M count=32 | |
| chmod 600 /swapfile | |
| #format the file properly with mkswap | |
| sudo mkswap /swapfile | |
| #tell your system to activate it | |
| swapon /swapfile | |
| #test swap file | |
| swapon -s | |
| #if no errors add to fstab so it auto mounts: | |
| echo '/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0' > /etc/fstab |
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